This come from behind stuff is great, why couldn't we do this earlier in the season?

by Tom Dakers on Sep 27, 2009 5:57 PM EDT in Game Recaps Comment 9 comments

I don't understand why we would pinch hit for Randy Ruiz today when we wouldn't pinch hit for Chavez, McDonald or Bautista the other day, but it worked out. Adam Lind comes in the 8th to hit for Ruiz and singles in the tying run. Rod Barajas follows that with a doulbe to bring in the winning run.

Brian Tallet pitched us 7 strong innings, giving up 5 hits, 2 walks and striking out 6. Actually 6 strong innings and one poor one, he gave up 3 solo homers in the 5th. Brian Wolfe came in in the 8th and gave up another solo homer but got the win, since we came back o his watch. Shawn Camp pitched the 9th to get his first save of the season.

We got 9 hits on the day, 2 for Bautista, one each for everyone else that swung a bat except for Aaron Hill and Edwin Encarnacion. Even Kevin Millar had a hit, though if you watch the replay it went through SS Josh Wilson. I'd have called it an error.

Jays of the Day are Lind (.298 WPA, nice when you can be JoD with one swing of the bat), Barajas (.205), Camp (.168) and Bautista (.116). Suckage Jays are Encarnacion (-.210) and Vernon Wells (-.140).

We start a 3 game series in Boston tomorrow with Scott Richmond (7-10, 5.32) going against Josh Beckett (16-6, 3.78).

The Jays finish the season 44-37 at home, unfortunately they made us play on the road too.

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“Even when I was here last year, he didn’t excite me,” Gaston said before Sunday’s home finale against Seattle. “I think he got by out there a lot of times barely by the skin of his teeth. He didn’t really have a live fastball like he used to have.”

Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...

by JohnnyG on Sep 27, 2009 11:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ok not sure why it did that, but I put in a link there that said “Cito Takes a shot at BJ Ryan”

Link here

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by JohnnyG on Sep 27, 2009 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

wow, that is a pretty sharp thing to say

it is ok for us bloggers to write that kind of stuff, but if I were in Cito’s shoes, or any other MLB mgr, I would just defer on that question

nothing to gain by answering and risk much to lose — such as alienating other players, making enemies, getting involved in a media controversy etc.

arguably the press was just trying to bait him there to get a nice controversial story that folks will read

by aagoodfella on Sep 28, 2009 9:02 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah I kinda thought the same thing. Although I think Cito may have it in the back of his head that he may not be here next year and has already said he is going to retire.

Then again he may just not to be too politically savvy when it comes to questions and answers.

Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...

by JohnnyG on Sep 28, 2009 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs